Eating Our Own Dog Food Revisited

mjgraves | March 22, 2009

tn old telephone 107x96 Eating Our Own Dog Food RevisitedOk, this is going to be a rant. Consider yourselves warned. And worse than that, it’s more or less a repeat of a rant from not long ago. The theme is essentially “Eating Our Own Dog Food” and it harkens back to thoughts of the Emperors New Clothes, or perhaps the state of the mechanics own car.

To what I am I referring? Well, in this case it’s the Squawk Box podcast from Feb 29. The topic was, netbooks vs smart phones and was extremely interesting. However the call, and resulting podcast, was also profoundly aggravating.

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Conference Call Etiquette

mjgraves | September 22, 2008

Listening to the recording of last Friday’s Calliflower conference call with Alec Saunders on Skype & SIP peering I must say that I was embarrassed for the host. There’s a tremendous amount of background noise in the call recording from someone on the call that was busy going about their day while monitoring the call.

People. Your phones have a mic mute function. Use it!

Self-mute when you’re not speaking. To not do so is simply rude and unprofessional.

Don’t think that just because you’re not talking all is well. Conference bridges have automatic gain functions that ramp up the volume when you’re not speaking. So even in a quiet office the simple act of typing can be like hammering nails to others on a conference call.

BTW, if you’re phone doesn’t have a mic mute function then use the mute function (usually *6)  on the conference bridge….or….get a better phone.

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